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b12 summer main event
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Ami Shulman
Artistic inquirer
Mastery of the self
This workshop is about establishing authorship over our art and our lives. Through an intricate movement awareness practice, we will access the body’s inherent intelligence to steer us towards states of optimal creativity and performance. Select games of observation will reveal our habitual tendencies while offering us new possibilities, through which we can reclaim freedom of choice in both our thinking and our action. This process gives agency to the artist through self-directed choice-making, while developing our capacity for connection to ourselves, leaving us with a remarkable sense of well-being. With the capacity to improve mental and emotional health and to significantly navigate blocks, both physically and mentally, this work is truly relevant for our times and is essential to any artistic practice. The Feldenkrais Method is a mastery of self-use.
the description reflects an artist’s idea which was developed at the time it was submitted to b12. it may have changed by the time the workshop or the performance project is starting. please stay flexible. thank you!
biography
Ami Shulman is a movement artist; choreographer, performer, educator, rehearsal director, feldenkrais practitioner, and intimacy coordinator. Ami has taught throughout Europe, Canada, and the USA, including for the göteborgsoperans danskompani, the Netherlands Dans Theater, the Venice Biennale, Cirque Du Soleil, Juilliard School, BANFF Centre for the Arts, National Theatre School of Canada, CODARTS, b12, Skånes dansteater, staatstheater kassel, Hollins University, Jacob’s Pillow, amongst many others, and she is an Artistic Associate of the Springboard Project. Ami choreographed for the National Theatre of London, UK, the Shakespeare Theatre Company, Washington DC, and has co-created work with the Cirque Du Soleil, as well as assisted creations with the National Ballet of Canada and Ballet British Columbia. Ami was an associate choreographer to Maxine Doyle, has staged the works of Johannes Wieland, and has been a Rehearsal Director at the GöteborgOperans Danskompani in Sweden. Ami has an invested interest in the healing arts; she is a Certified Feldenkrais Practitioner, she is an intimacy coordinator and is trained in Ericksonian Hypnotherapy. She has presented her work at conferences internationally and has written articles on enactive cognition and the phenomenology of movement, having her work published in the Feldenkrais Journal and in Dance magazine. She also co-authored for the anthology Back to the Dance Itself.
please be aware of our early bird special offer for this workshop! you can apply for this offer up until the 24th of march 2025. after the 24th the regular workshop fee applies. applications are accepted up until one day before the workshops starts.
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